Zaha Hadid Architects wins competition for Tower C at Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, that will be a major business and technology center of the Chinese city, and will include residential and cultural developments as well as generous green zone
The Huanggang Port Area in the city of Shenzhen’s Futian District services 300,000 people crossing over to Hong Kong daily. The new masterplan, focused around two large public squares, marks out three interconnected parts: the harbor hub including of
The firm of Norman Foster has won the competition to design Guangming Hub, a transport-oriented development on the high-speed rail link that connects Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, with three new metro lines incorporated. The latest technologi
This mixed-used skyscraper designed by OMA / David Gianotten contains 60,000 square meters of offices over a 40,000-square-meter podium mall. Built by the real estate developer China Merchants Shekou Holdings in Shenzhen’s Shekou economic zone, the 2
In Shenzhen’s Longhua District, the firm headed by the Italian architect Stefano Boeri will be building a rehabilitation center for people with cognitive disabilities and mobility limitations, having won the competition called for the purpose, in the
With a scheme titled ‘Super Campus’ AZPML Architecture (London and New York) and TLS Landscape Architecture (Berkeley and Shanghai) have won the competition for the Landscape Design of the o design the landscaping for the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquart
The Chinese firm MAD Architects, headed by Ma Yansong, has unveiled its masterplan and architectural design for an ambitious cultural complex with a total built area of 182,000 square meters. Located within the Houhai area of Shenzhen’s Nanshan distr
The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has won the competition for the Shimao ShenKong International Center, a mixed-use development in the heart of the Longgang district of Shenzhen, China. To be known as Shenzhen Terraces, the 101,300-square-meter complex will i
This 360,000-square-meter mixed-use development has been designed by OMA / Chris van Duijn as a 'microcity' within the Qianhai business district of Shenzhen. Containing offices, retail, two hotels, and a cultural center, stacked volumes form two towe
In the international bid to build new headquarters for the Chinese smartphone manufacturer OPPO, Zaha Hadid Architects has carried the day over Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), a
Rising over sunflowers to a height of 15 meters, this viewing point combines perforated panels of metal mesh with white PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) surfaces, and encircles a pool used to irrigate the fields around.
The firm led by the British architect Norman Foster has been selected to design Guangming Hub, a high-density urban development linked to the railway that runs through Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. Following the model known as TOD (transit-orie
As many as 300,000 people crossing the border between continental China and Hong Kong on a daily basis are served by Huanggang Port Area, a strategic enclave for which the London-based firm Zaha Hadid Architects has drawn up a highly ambitious regene
Chinese president Xi Jinping a few years ago lambasted the ‘weird architecture’ that international stars were building in his country (see Arquitectura Viva 169), but his denouncement does not seem to have been much heeded. Otherwise there would be n
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced the 2019 Best Tall Building Worldwide and Category Winners. The Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates is the winner for 400 Meters and Above section. Locat
The Chinese boom has made many an architectural dream come true: what in Europe was improbable and in the United States impossible is, in China, simply feasible. This situation has been skillfully capitalized on by the large architectural firms, from
Vecina a Hong Kong, la ciudad de Shenzhén ha pasado en pocos años de ser un pueblo de pescadores a una gran metrópoli y uno de los mayores centros económicos de China. La futura sede de la Shenzhen Stock Exchange, la Bolsa de la ciudad, proyectada po
Steven Holl acaba de concluir en Shenzhen su segundo proyecto de escala colosal en China: el Vanke Center, más conocido como rascacielos horizontal (véase AV Proyectos 34). Con la altura del Empire State en horizontal, el edificio, apoyado sobre ocho
